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[[BlatantLies Except not really]]. In ''Meet My Friends'', Tom really plays a fictionalized version of himself who is [[BerserkButton very defensive]] about [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial jumping on the recap podcast bandwagon.]] Each episode is littered with technical incompetence, and the conversation is often derailed by [[CommutingOnABus on-again-off-again]] engineers Jason Gore and Pat Burn, to Tom's never-ending irritation. Really, the whole thing serves as a big TakeThat to cash-grabbing, fad-chasing podcasting, as all of Tom's own "sponsors" are purely fictional and often [[AbusiveAdvertising weirdly aggressive.]]
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[[BlatantLies Except not really]]. In ''Meet My Friends'', Tom really plays a fictionalized version of himself who is [[BerserkButton very defensive]] about [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial jumping on the recap podcast bandwagon.]] Each episode is littered with technical incompetence, and the conversation is often derailed by [[CommutingOnABus on-again-off-again]] engineers Jason Gore and Pat Burn, Byrne, to Tom's never-ending irritation. Really, the whole thing serves as a big TakeThat to cash-grabbing, fad-chasing podcasting, as all of Tom's own "sponsors" are purely fictional and often [[AbusiveAdvertising weirdly aggressive.]]
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* HostilityOnTheSet: [[{{Invoked}} In-universe]]. Jason makes no attempt to hide his disdain for Pat when they're both in the studio, usually assuming the role of TheBully by drawing attention to Pat's technical incompetence.
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* {{Padding}}: {{Invoked}}. Tom will almost always try to talk over the intro music to keep it from feeling too long, then immediately complain about how it sounds unnatural.
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* ThemeTuneExtended: Unfortunately for Tom, this is actually the ''only'' version of his podcast theme, and he'll usually complain that he's {{Padding}} in his intro just to keep the song from sounding unnecessarily long. [[invoked]]
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* BerserkButton: Bad-mouthing the show is a huge pressure point for Tom. He spends entire episodes distracted by bad reviews from Website/AVClub.
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* CommutingOnABus: Jason and Pat float in and out after their respective introductions, disagreements, layoffs, etc.
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* JumpScare: The "Line of the Episode" bumper is intentionally aggressive, and sometimes it plays when the sound on the board is accidentally set too high.
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* TakeThat: The whole series serves as one of this to recap podcasting. There are in-universe accusations that Tom responds to during episodes, assuring listeners that the show is "not a cheap cash grab."
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->''[[ThemeTuneExtended "We could probably still shave ten seconds off that intro music, but here we go..."]]''
''Meet My Friends the Friends'' is a recap podcast hosted by Tom Scharpling of ''Radio/TheBestShow'' fame. A labor of love, each episode recaps an episode of TheNineties {{Sitcom}} ''Series/{{Friends}}'' featuring different segments such as "Fun Friends Facts," "Rank the Friends," "This Day in Friends History," and much more.
[[BlatantLies Except not really]]. In ''Meet My Friends'', Tom really plays a fictionalized version of himself who is [[BerserkButton very defensive]] about [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial jumping on the recap podcast bandwagon.]] Each episode is littered with technical incompetence, and the conversation is often derailed by [[CommutingOnABus on-again-off-again]] engineers Jason Gore and Pat Burn, to Tom's never-ending irritation. Really, the whole thing serves as a big TakeThat to cash-grabbing, fad-chasing podcasting, as all of Tom's own "sponsors" are purely fictional and often [[AbusiveAdvertising weirdly aggressive.]]
As of 2022, the podcast has recapped up through the fourth season of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', consisting of four seasons of its own.
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* AbusiveAdvertising: The ad copy is often super aggressive, with sponsors like "caviar.net" calling out their competition for selling "slimy fish eggs" and presenting an offer code [[InsaneTrollLogic that actually]] ''[[InsaneTrollLogic raises]]'' [[InsaneTrollLogic the price]] on an order instead of taking money off.
* BigBad: Season three slowly reveals Don Strong to be a stern, iron-fisted podcasting tyrant who ropes his talent into ridiculously binding contracts, as well as physically abusing them if they flub any information on their show. Jason learns this the hard way.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Both episodes of "Taking the Leap" focus on Jason and Pat's ''Series/QuantumLeap'' recap podcast with only passing reference to Tom.
* {{Foil}}: Jason and Pat serve this roll to one another. Whereas Jason is typically disinterested in ''Friends'', Pat is overly-enthusiastic about it, and happily assumes the role of co-host with Tom. Whereas Jason is a lot more confident and overreaching with his comments, [[ExtremeDoormat Pat is more meek and easy to push around.]] Whereas Jason is actually good at his job as an audio engineer, Pat vehemently struggles to produce bumpers with any technical competence, and accidentally destroys the audio board with sparkling apple juice after celebrating the completion of his first decent bumper. Naturally, they butt heads in the studio.
* ShowWithinAShow: "Don Strong's Taking the Leap, Hosted by Jason Gore" is alluded to many times before finally taking up an episode slot within the show's third season.
* SickEpisode: Despite Pat's insistence that it was just allergies, he spends an episode sniffling, passing it off to Tom in the very next episode.
* {{Troll}}: Jason assumes this role after the first season. Once Tom fires him, he goes and starts his own ''Series/QuantumLeap'' podcast, often deleting files off of Tom's computer and holding them hostage to get free advertising.
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->''[[ThemeTuneExtended "We could probably still shave ten seconds off that intro music, but here we go..."]]''
''Meet My Friends the Friends'' is a recap podcast hosted by Tom Scharpling of ''Radio/TheBestShow'' fame. A labor of love, each episode recaps an episode of TheNineties {{Sitcom}} ''Series/{{Friends}}'' featuring different segments such as "Fun Friends Facts," "Rank the Friends," "This Day in Friends History," and much more.
[[BlatantLies Except not really]]. In ''Meet My Friends'', Tom really plays a fictionalized version of himself who is [[BerserkButton very defensive]] about [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial jumping on the recap podcast bandwagon.]] Each episode is littered with technical incompetence, and the conversation is often derailed by [[CommutingOnABus on-again-off-again]] engineers Jason Gore and Pat Burn, to Tom's never-ending irritation. Really, the whole thing serves as a big TakeThat to cash-grabbing, fad-chasing podcasting, as all of Tom's own "sponsors" are purely fictional and often [[AbusiveAdvertising weirdly aggressive.]]
As of 2022, the podcast has recapped up through the fourth season of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', consisting of four seasons of its own.
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!!''"This trope list is brought to you by envelopes.net ..."''
* AbusiveAdvertising: The ad copy is often super aggressive, with sponsors like "caviar.net" calling out their competition for selling "slimy fish eggs" and presenting an offer code [[InsaneTrollLogic that actually]] ''[[InsaneTrollLogic raises]]'' [[InsaneTrollLogic the price]] on an order instead of taking money off.
* BigBad: Season three slowly reveals Don Strong to be a stern, iron-fisted podcasting tyrant who ropes his talent into ridiculously binding contracts, as well as physically abusing them if they flub any information on their show. Jason learns this the hard way.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Both episodes of "Taking the Leap" focus on Jason and Pat's ''Series/QuantumLeap'' recap podcast with only passing reference to Tom.
* {{Foil}}: Jason and Pat serve this roll to one another. Whereas Jason is typically disinterested in ''Friends'', Pat is overly-enthusiastic about it, and happily assumes the role of co-host with Tom. Whereas Jason is a lot more confident and overreaching with his comments, [[ExtremeDoormat Pat is more meek and easy to push around.]] Whereas Jason is actually good at his job as an audio engineer, Pat vehemently struggles to produce bumpers with any technical competence, and accidentally destroys the audio board with sparkling apple juice after celebrating the completion of his first decent bumper. Naturally, they butt heads in the studio.
* ShowWithinAShow: "Don Strong's Taking the Leap, Hosted by Jason Gore" is alluded to many times before finally taking up an episode slot within the show's third season.
* SickEpisode: Despite Pat's insistence that it was just allergies, he spends an episode sniffling, passing it off to Tom in the very next episode.
* {{Troll}}: Jason assumes this role after the first season. Once Tom fires him, he goes and starts his own ''Series/QuantumLeap'' podcast, often deleting files off of Tom's computer and holding them hostage to get free advertising.
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